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In this thesis I argue that following Hegel's commitment to both political philosophy and political theory, Max Stirner, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche take flight from doing political theory in the 'Western' tradition. I demonstrate that Stirner, Marx and Nietzsche all use t…

The contemporary crisis has lead to a renewed interest in Marx's critique of political economy. But today it is hard to read Marx as the prophet of a new and better world, hiswritings on capitalism's self-destructive tendencies seem without hope: where Marxbelieved that capitali…

This dissertation offers a Marxist history of Detroit, spanning the years 1913–2018. With a primary emphasis on the class struggle between the capitalist class and the proletariat, it examines how the profit logic has affected the city’s development, throughout its industrial an…

This dissertation aims to analyze, clarify, and reconstruct the concept of class consciousness by developing a dialectical account of political agency at work in the concept. I defend a dialectical account of agency, that includes both the way in which individuals come together …

Since Marx published Das Kapital, nearly everyone has read his theory of exploitation as arguing that the capitalist class robs the working class of some surplus. Since robbery is wrong, people believe Marx was arguing that capitalism rests on an injustice. However, Marx also sa…